Arduino sketch that implements a programmer for PIC devices that use the low voltage In Circuit Serial Programming protocol.
First, flash the arduino_icsp.ino sketch to an Arduino. This was tested with
a nano, but should work on most boards.
Connect the Arduino to the PIC chip you would like to program. This requires 3 connections for ICSP: a bidirectional data line (DAT), a clock line (CLK), and a reset line (MCLR). Remember to also connect power!
| Pin | ICSP |
|---|---|
| 10 | MCLR |
| 11 | CLK |
| 12 | DAT |
The arduino-icsp programmer takes a simple ascii based command set, so
theoretically you could interface manually using something like screen.
The recommend program to upload hex files to a PIC using the arduino-icsp
programmer is picchick.
This program supports arduino-icsp with the -c arduino-icsp command line option.
Additionally a python script icsp.py is provided that implements the basic
command set as command line arguments. This script requires pyserial to be
installed in order to communicate with serial devices.
Copyright (c) 2024 Rex McKinnon
This software is provided for free under the permissive University of
Illinios/NCSA Open Source License. Check out the LICENSE file for full details.